in Suppreffion of every thing which is instituted by God.

Alas! what fignifies multiplying Words, look but upon this Map, and it is Demonftration that our Trade and our Liberty are, contrary to a Solemn Treaty, exposed to the Power of France; and what remains, but that we implore Heaven that the Legislature would lay alide all Animofities, and exert themselves in Defence of their Deluded and Infulted Country.

I beg of your Eminence to pardon this Trouble, and as much as you are an Englishman,

I am, SIR,

Your Eminence's Moft Humble Servant,

C. P.

SIR,

P. S. To the Examiner.

Monday, June 28, 1714. Your Eminence's Paper which came out to

Day is very full of that your ufual kind of Argumentation which fills the Mouths of those who are for you, with more Words to vent their Paffions and Prejudices, but affords no Reasons to convince those who are against you.

As my above Paper is a profeffed Defence of Mr. Sle, 1 fhall leave all you have raised fo feebly on the fide of thofe who oppofed the Bill of Schifm, which you fay you forefaw,and come to the wonderful Things you could not foresee, which were objected by him for whom I plead.

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You have it thus: I could not forefee, that Mr. Richard Se would be fo unusually full of Reafons upon this Occafion. I could not forefee that modeft Expreffion of bis: The Vote for my Expulfion, was more Important to the People. of England, than I fhall at this time explain,

1 Anfwer, It is no breach of Modefty for the meanett Man upon Earth to fay, his Cafe may be of ill Confequence to the Greatest Perfons in the World, for all Humane Society is concerned in the Judgment upon the meanest of its Members.

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I could not forefee, say you, that he would call the H of Cns the People's Attorneys. When he was One of them, was Accountable to no Man. I am glad however, he calls them by a Name he has so much Reason to Dread.

Mr. Se must be understood, by the Words Accountable to no Man, to have intended To no Man but to the House it self. As for the Commons being the People's Attorneys, every body knows they are fo. Mr. Se did not call them the People's Attorneys, in what they Acted towards him. As for his dreading Attorneys, it does not lye before your Eminence.

But you again, I could not foresee, that he would call it a great Omiffion, that Diffenters in the North Part of Britain should not be as much Difcourag'd as they are in the South. The Fact is, They are not only as much, but much more Difcourag'd; and in Nothing fo much, as in this very Particular concerning Education,

This is what they call Gratis Dictum, and merely Afferted, without giving Example or Argument for the Support of it.

I could not forefee, that he would call the Care of Diffenters Children the next think to Cutting their Throats.bes

Mr. Se Afferted no fuch thing; he might fay, while this A&t was in Agitation, that to take the Care of Children from their Parents was Cruelty next to Cutting their Throats.

You fay, I could not foresee, that he would call Church of England Education, the way to encourage blind Obedience in the People. Anfwer, Impofing any thing of this kind but by Evidence is obliging to a Blind Obedience.

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I could not forefee, that he would make it a Question, Whether the Bill ought to oblige, after it was Enacted. Is he going to set up an Academy for Sedition and Rebellion?

I am fure S---le loves the Universities, and has done them Service. Bu I will fay nothing of what is paffed into a Law, and I wonder your Eminence would mention that now.

I could not forefee, fay you, be would deny bis Affent to the Bill, because the Pretender is fill at Bar-le-Duc, and the French are about to Fortify Mardyke. He could not forbear the last invincible Argument, tho' the Fact happens to be falle.

I am now come to what is moft Material to me at prefent. Your Eminence is ftrutting upon Ground which will Deceive, and Swallow you up. I maintain the Honefty of what he faid, and if they have done worfe than Fortifying Mardyke, you may forgive him if he faid they were about doing it. According to the Repre fentation which we at first had of the manner of eluding the Article of Demolition, it was to be by Fortifying Mardyke; they have not put

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themselves to the trouble of removing their Harbour, but, with the most Impudent Infolence only cut through the Downs between Mardyke and Dunkirk, and kept the Identical Haven which we ftipulated fhould be destroyed.

In what follows you are only Satyrical, and fay Mr. Sle fhould not be against Schoolmiftreffes, fince he wants to learn to Read. But at Why, you'll break the Man's Heart. prefent let us think of nothing but Dunkirk Undemolished.

I am,

SIR,

Your Eminence's Gentle and Patient Reader,

C. P.

THE

THE

CRISIS:

OR, A

DISCOURSE

Representing,

From the moft AUTHENTICK RECORDS, The juft Causes of the late Happy REVOLUTION:

AND

The feveral Settlements of the Crowns of ENGLAND and SCOTLAND on Her MAJESTY; and on the Demife of Her MAJESTY without Iffue, upon the Moft Illuftrious Princefs SOPHIA, Electress and Dutchefs Dowager of Hanover, and the Heirs of Her Body being Proteftants; by previous Acts of both Parliaments of the late Kingdoms of England and Scotland; and confirmed by the Parlia ment of GREAT BRITAIN.

WITH SOME

SEASONABLE REMARKS On the Danger of a

POPISH SUCCESSOR.

Invitus ea tanquam Vulnera attingo; Sed nif tacta tractataque fanari non poffunt.

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